Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 year banking career, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, and other major industry publications. The American Bankers Association (ABA) published Barnewall’s Profitable Private Banking: the Complete Blueprint, in 1987. She taught private banking at Colorado University for the ABA and trained private bankers in Singapore.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Trump, Comey, Russia, Mueller, Lieberman, And Dirty Tricks

A brief apology to my readers: Due to a transmission
problem, this article that should have appeared as Part 2 on Sunday, was
delayed. Sorry… Marilyn

The reaction to President Donald J. Trump’s firing of FBI Director
James Comey makes very clear how out of touch with the American people the U.S.
Congress and its various investigative committees are.

Either Congress is out of touch or they have no idea how informed
the people are about their President and all of the phony probes the House and
Senate and FBI use to discredit or otherwise insult him. They are, after
all, part of the swamp the President intends to drain.

The purpose of the probes appears to be: Call witnesses who
say negative things about Donald Trump and are then asked questions by Senators
and Congressmen that could have been written by a game show host rather than a
serious investigator.

For example, on March 15thChairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), and ranking member Adam Schiff
(D-CA) wrote a letter to the CIA, NSA and the FBI asking for any available
evidence that the Obama administration had gathered by using unlawful
surveillance against the Trump campaign.

The NSA and the CIA
responded. The FBI did not. I have yet to hear the obvious question
asked of James Comey as FBI Director: “Why did the FBI not respond to the
letter sent by Congressmen Nunes and Schiff to the FBI on March 15thwanting to know if the
Bureau has evidence proving or disproving that the Obama Administration used
surveillance of Trump’s campaign?”

Why didn’t they ask that question? The answer is not only
important, it could prevent unnecessary further investigations of what appears
to be a non-issue.

Chairman Nunes investigated and because he found evidence of
President Trump’s innocence the Democrats forced him to step down as Chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee. He was, thus, prevented from asking
this important question.

Congressman Schiff, however, the ranking Democrat on the
Committee, began doing numerous televisions interviews. If I hear him say
one more time how it is critical to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate
Russia’s attempt to influence the American elections and the Trump campaign’s
involvement with Russia in that endeavor, I think I’ll throw up.

Schiff and the Democrats evidently don’t know we’re well enough
informed about what really happened to understand the hidden agenda of the
Democrats. We know why every Democrat who opens his or her mouth when a
television or radio microphone is placed in front of it calls for a Special
Prosecutor: The only way the Democrats can protect Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) is to appoint a Special
Prosecutor who can keep all of the dirty little secrets hidden from us while
they remain free to continue their public attacks against President Trump.

There is no doubt James Comey wears a black hat. It’s not
hard to find the facts – not my opinion or your opinion or President Trump’s
opinion, but facts.

Comey is a former member of a Clinton Foundation corporate
partner’s board. During his term as FBI Director, his brother, Peter
Comey, worked at the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.

In February 2010, FBI agent and lead investigator John Giacalone
resigned because of the way the Clinton foundation investigation was being
handled by FBI Director James Comey.

Giacalone said the pay-for-play investigation of the Clinton
Foundation was not properly done, was white-washed and forgotten. He said
FBI agents were blocked from serving search warrants issued so key evidence
could be retrieved. They were not allowed to interrogate witnesses
spontaneously.

It appears agents thought the Clinton case was being investigated
in a way that would make it go on and on and on — in the end, FBI agents would
look like they were abusing Hillary (who was not sworn in for her FBI
questioning) and Cheryl Mills and one other woman both of whom who were allowed
to sit in on her FBI interview. They were concerned, they said, about
possible medical complications (memory) involved in her fall. When the
FBI agents tried to gain access to Hillary’s medical records regarding her real
or imagined head injuries from the fall, it was not allowed (many say it wasn’t
allowed by the FBI Director, James Comey).

It is very interesting that Sandy Berger, Loretta Lynch, and
Cheryl Mills all worked at this same law firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Berger (who passed away in December 2015) was National Security Adviser to Bill
Clinton; Loretta Lynch was Obama’s former attorney general – the one who met
with Bill Clinton at the Phoenix airport in July 2016 just before the decision
whether Mrs. Clinton would be prosecuted on criminal charges; and Cheryl Mills
was Hillary Clinton’s long-time adviser and her Chief of Staff. Isn’t
that interesting?

This same law firm did patent work for the Denver-based company
that coordinated the use of an unlawful private computer by Mrs. Clinton when
she was Secretary of State – the same company that hid Hillary’s server in a
closet.

Do you remember this server? As declared by James Comey, Top
Secret, Secret and Classified emails were unlawfully sent to and from Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton via this unprotected server. Many of the emails
were forwarded from Secretary Clinton’s computer to former Congressman and
convicted sexual predator Anthony Weiner, husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s
long-time and very, very close adviser.

When Comey was nominated in 2013 by President Obama to become
Director of the FBI, Comey told the U.S. Senate that he would remove himself
from all cases involving companies where he, Comey, had worked.

Comey worked for Lockheed Martin, a company that in 2010 admitted
to becoming a Clinton Global Initiative member. Comey earned $6 million
in just one year at Lockheed. That same year, Lockheed Martin won 17
approvals for private contracts from Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the
Barack Obama administration.

In addition to being a Clinton Foundation Global Initiative
member, Lockheed Martin is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in
Egypt which paid Bill Clinton $250,000 to deliver a speech in 2010. Ya
gotta pay to play!

Lockheed Martin has a long history with many, many fines for
screwing our military — you remember, the military that today doesn’t have
enough parts for aircraft and ships and that is having to scavenge old planes
and ships for repairs?

In 2007, Lockheed had to pay the federal government $265 million
caused by over-billing for its work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter; in 2003,
Lockheed paid $37.9 million because it had been charged that it inflated costs
on work done for the U.S. Air Force.

There is a very long list of abuses like this by Lockheed.
The company’s affiliation with our military should be cut off and they should
be allowed to abuse others for awhile.

On 5 July 2013, President Obama nominated Comey to become FBI
Director. That same year, James Comey became a board member, a
director and a Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee Member of HSBC
Holdings.

For those of you who may have forgotten, HSBC is one of the
world’s largest drug money launderers. It has been fined massive amounts
several times for violating money laundering regulations. HSBC Holdings
Plc made several agreements to pay fines for breaking money laundering
regulations, a recent one for $1.92 billion. This latest fine was imposed
because HSBC laundering drug money is as dirty as the Rio Grande River which
flows between Mexico and the U.S.

The point is, HSBC is known (not just suspected) to be a money
laundering facility and opens its arms to Mexican and South American drug
cartels among others.

HSBC was charged by the U,S. Justice Department (Brooklyn) of
violating sanctions laws by doing business with customers in Iran, Cuba, Burma
and Sudan.

The bigger point is, this is the financial institution with which
James Comey chose to affiliate himself as a board member. HSBC history
has made headlines before and after the time Comey chose to join its board of
directors.

Former National Security
Adviser to Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger, was mentioned above. His most
publicized escapade was thetheft of numerous documents
from the National Archives– no one is really sure how many documents he took and
destroyed. It was, however, determined some had to do with negligence on
the part of President Bill Clinton in the build-up to 9/11. He was hiding
them by stuffing them in his pants, socks, shorts, and any other available
place he could find to hide what he was stealing.

In 2004, Comey was serving as deputy attorney general at the
Justice Department and it is said that he limited the criminal investigation of
Sandy Berger. He certainly kept the prosecution under-publicized.

Berger should have done extensive jail time for his theft and
destruction of valuable National Archives documents, but a World Net Daily
article by Jerome Corsi, “On April 1, 2005, Berger pleaded guilty to a
misdemeanor charge of intentionally removing documents from the National
Archives and destroying some of them. He was fined $50,000, sentenced to
100 hours of community service and two years probation. Also, his
national security license was stripped for two years.”

So much for how critical James Comey thinks classified documents
are.

Jerry Corsi is a long-term business associate of mine and a man I
know to be one of the best researchers in the media world. Jerry is, a
journalist for World Net Daily, InfoWars, and is a NY Times bestselling
author. In his linked article, Corsi, points out that Comey has a long
history of cases ending favorably for the Clintons.

One little-known fact is that James Comey became a prosecutor who
worked on the Gambino crime family case. He moved on to the George W.
Bush Department of Justice, a few private sector jobs, and then joined the
Obama administration in 2013.

James’s brother Peter Comey has worked as Senior Director of Real
Estate Operations for the Americas for DLA Piper – coincidentally the firm that
performed the independent audit of the Clinton Foundation in the early attempts
to neutralize the damage done by the Hillary email scandal. DLA Piper is
listed #5 on Hillary Clinton’s all-time career Top Contributors list.Interestingly, Peter re-designed the FBI building and his brother,
James Comey, owns the mortgage on Peter’s $725,000 home in Virginia.

It is obvious that President Trump had numerous reasons to
terminate James Comey’s ten-year contract as FBI Director. Even Senator
Schumer was yelling last summer to anyone who would listen that Comey should be
fired… amazing how Schumer switches from anger to tears so easily; from
indignation to humble public servant. He, too, makes me sick.

Many people object to the way in which Comey’s termination was
handled by the Trump administration. Frankly, I can think of no better time to
fire an FBI Director whose possible involvement is trying to ruin a Presidency
than to do it when he is out of town and five hours away from Washington. That
way the locks on his office door can be changed so he can’t remove possible
evidence. Comey knew he was going to be fired… he just thought it would
be done in a more politically smooth way. President Trump isn’t politically
smooth – which is why the American people elected him.

Further, it is rumored that President Trump will appoint an
Interim Director while he searches for the best possible person to fill that
job. Anyone who has ever played good chess can see what Donald J. Trump
is doing — and all I can say is, the Democrats don’t play much chess.

Regarding the media problem caused because President Trump changes
the stories being told by his media representatives…it shouldn’t happen and it
is largely the President’s fault. The communications team, however, could
solve the media hatred-of-the-President problem if they would get out of panic
mode.

Most of us do not like the Trump Tweets… we think it makes the
President appear as if he doesn’t take his job seriously. Because of the
hateful negative media which covers the President with no possibility of a
positive comment, however, it is needed – at least until an alternative way to
make sure people are told the truth is found.

To stop the Tweets, the negative media situation must be
changed. How to do that?

Every city and state has small, independent newspapers which are
not part of the “Never Trump” campaign. They must, however, use
information from sources that are part of “Never Trump.”

If Trump’s communications department could see its way to a
creative idea, they would quickly find the names, email addresses and telephone
numbers of the editors of these papers. There are thousands of
them. They would send press releases directly from the White House to
these editors. They would invite independent editors to send questions…
to ask for verification when needed, for example. They would receive a
response.

The result? Once a strong independent newspaper base has
been established nationally, the mainstream media becomes irrelevant because
people will get their news either from the Internet or from their local,
independent newspapers which provide facts rather than fiction.

Actually, the mainstream media is already irrelevant but they do
not yet know it.

Donald Trump needs better advisers than he currently employs and
he needs to come to grips with the fact that he has powerful enemies who seek
to destroy him and his Presidency. He knows this, of course, but the
President’s actions indicate he does not yet take the threat as seriously as he
should.

He needs to stop talking and Tweeting spontaneously because once
the mainstream media problem is solved, there is no reason for him to give them
so much ammunition.

It will be interesting to watch the Comey Comedy unwind. The
announcement last week that Joe Lieberman is the top contender for this job,
however, is more than just a little unbelievable. If President Trump
appoints Lieberman to this job, he is truly putting the fox into the hen house.

Former Democrat Senator
Joe Lieberman was the Democrat party’s nominee for Vice President in 2000 – his
running mate was Global Warming crook Al Gore. While a Senator, Lieberman
was the one who proposed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 as well
as legislation that led to establishment of the Department of Homeland
Security. Lieberman cast the 60thvote required to pass Obamacare… of course, any
one Senator who voted for that legislation can say the same thing (but most
avoid saying they voted for it, these days).

If Donald Trump wants to put an enemy who I believe will likely
work to destroy his Presidency, Joe Lieberman is a good choice as FBI Director.

Is it possible that this is a Jared Kushner recommendation?
If so, the President needs to have a talk with daughter Ivanka.

About Me

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. Barnewall taught private banking at Colorado University and has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction and one biography.
Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and has written editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, etc. She has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America (2005-10), Who's Who of American Women (2006-10), Who's Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who's Who in the World (2008).